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The British Journal of Psychiatry 138: 37-39 (1981)
© 1981 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Hypoalgesia in depressive illness

DI Ben-Tovim and MS Schwartz

Neurophysiological studies of experimental pain were carried out on two severely depressed patients who complained of an inability to experience emotion. They had normal thresholds for stimulus appreciation but markedly increased thresholds for pain. These abnormal pain thresholds normalized with clinical recovery.


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